Climate Cities
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All that light pollution is wasting energy AND making you sick
Our addiction to electricity is giving everyone jet lag.
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Meet the man who re-energized NYC parks — and wants to do the same for yours
Adrian Benepe was responsible for adding more than 700 acres to the Big Apple's park system. Now he's taking the cause national.
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Lost Louisiana: The race to reclaim vanished land back from the sea
The world’s fastest submerging state is looking to nature in an ambitious plan to turn back the tide, and to BP to fund it -- but will it work?
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Behind every crumbling downtown is a billionaire who wants to save it
Detroit ponders its dependence on billionaire Dan Gilbert just as another high-profile effort to revive a downtown in Las Vegas, led by another tech CEO, hits the rapids.
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The cruel, increasingly usual prison punishment no one is talking about
Climate change and urban heat islands are making life inside the big house even more intolerable for the guilty and innocent alike.
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Chicago’s garbage trucks will be rollin’ on volts
Our trash won't be riding dirty for too much longer. North America's first electric garbage truck is rolling through Chicago.
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Steal this environmental justice journal
Free for the next two weeks: Some of the best research about the health disparities and environmental burdens suffered by people of color and modest resources around the globe.
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If these corals can make it in Miami, they’ll make it anywhere
Coral reefs are dying off worldwide, but in the murky waters off of Miami, one man found some remarkable survivors.
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Environmental justice works — and these folks show us how
Activists around the country are shaping public decisions -- and reshaping their communities for the better.
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Why the Kashmir floods have been so deadly
The disaster highlights the cost of careless urban planning and environmental mismanagement.
